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There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
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Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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Letter to Kit Grandon Letter to Kit Grandon
Author: Richard AginPublisher: Office of the GovernorYear: 1993Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
3/29/1993 Letter in response regarding opening of a Supermax facility in Illinois.
Letter to J. Michael Quinlan Letter to J. Michael Quinlan
Author: John DevereauxPublisher: Parliament of AustriaYear: 1993Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of 5/3/1993 letter regarding the plight of prisoners in control unit prisons.
Letter to Nancy Kurshan Letter to Nancy Kurshan
Author: Thomas KanePublisher: US Department of Justice: Federal Bureau of PrisonsYear: 1993Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
5/10/1993 letter in response to 3/27/1993 letter with comments on "the issue of administrative maximum security operations".
Letter to Janet Reno Letter to Janet Reno
Author: Nancy KurshanPublisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1993Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
3/27/1993 Expresses concerns over plans to open a supermax prison in Florence, CO.
Letter to Douglas Dougherty Letter to Douglas Dougherty
Author: Joey MogulPublisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1993Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of correspondence with Douglas Dougherty mailed to each community bidding on Supermax Prison. Includes Enclosures: Appendix A: News articles; Appendix B:High Tech Dungeon; Appendix C: A proposal for How to End the Fiscal Crisis in the Schools
Correspondence to Task Force Members [with media materials] Correspondence to Task Force Members [with media materials]
Author: Charles KingPublisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1993Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
1/25/1993 Correspondence sent to Governor Edgar's task Force on Crime and Corrections regarding the revisiting of initial proposals issued by Edgar at the beginning of 1993. Packet includes: Hentoff, Nat. "Dicken's Penitentiary Report." Chicago Southtown Economist 13 Jan. 1993. Reproduction; Kozol, Johnathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. 7-39. Reproduction.
Letter to Nancy Kurshan Letter to Nancy Kurshan
Author: Sidney R. YatesPublisher: Congress of the United States House of RepresentativesYear: 1993Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
3/15/1993 letter thanking Nancy Kurshan for her response regarding USP Florence, CO.
Letter to Letter to
Author: Paul SimonPublisher: United States SenateYear: 1993Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of letter regarding appearance in sponsoring a conference entitled "American Prison and Sentencing Policy: Developing a National Agenda".
Letter to CEML ATTN: Jerome Gauntlett Letter to CEML ATTN: Jerome Gauntlett
Author: Warden TurnerPublisher: Federal Bureau of PrisonsYear: 1993Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
3/3/1993 Response to 2/14/1993 letter concerning current status of the water supply at US Penitentiary, Marion, Illinoise.
Letter to Raymond R. Coffee Letter to Raymond R. Coffee
Author: Nancy KershanDate: 4/8/1993Volume Number: 8-AprFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Control Units
Article Attached: Whole Truth on Sentencing: It's a Joke. Chicago Sun-Times: March 25, 1993